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• There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

  Warren Zevon

  Real, Drinking, Alcohol

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• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Imagination makes cowards of us all.

  Ethel Mumford

  Imagination

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying

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• Never hide yourself! When you say something, don't be in the shadow; let everyone see you! Whatever you say always put your name under it! Be courageous enough not to use any mask; don't forget that hiding among the bushes is the affair of the cowards! Let the Sun shines on your face and everyman see you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shine On, Names, Shining

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• It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

  Pope Francis

  Gossip, Watches, Disease

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• The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Community

  "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" by Theodore Roosevelt. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics", 1910.

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• Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Wire, Fence

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• Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gun, Weak, Instruments

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• Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knights

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.76, 谷月社

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• The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Castles, Bigger

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• Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

  Tom Peters

  Dream, Fun, Business

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

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• There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

  Ludwig Lewisohn

  Philosophy, Men, Unendurable

  Ludwig Lewisohn (1915). “The Modern Drama: An Essay in Interpretation”

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• Even those who lose the battle are not cowards - if they have fought.

  Louise Closser Hale

  Effort, Battle, Ifs

  Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”

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• The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Fire, Preparation

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• It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Soul, Violence, Refuge

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.129, Radclyffe Hall

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• In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Deep Water, Brave

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• I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.

  Terrence Howard

  Film, Found, Bigots

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

  Patty Hearst

  Want, Wanting To Die, Dies

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• Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Joy, Suffering

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.184

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• Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfishness, Causes, Cowardice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

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• The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Stupid, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.

  Janet Reno

  "Hate crime investigators, prosecutors plot strategies". www.cnn.com. October 29, 1999.

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